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Thursday, May 29, 2014

THE NEW AMERICAN
CENTURY is a history of neoconservatism and its influence on US Foreign Policy
in the Middle East during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Written after
years of extensive research, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY contains over 550 pages,
including more than 1200 footnotes and some 120 pages of bibliography. The book
has been meticulously researched with every aspect of the history fully
supported with primary evidence, much of it from the neoconservatives
themselves.

The book is a must
for all those interested in the history of neoconservatism, the recent history
of Israel and conflict between the West and Islam in the Middle East during the
first ten years of the NEW AMERICAN CENTURY.

Despite being
originally written as a successful doctoral thesis, the book avoids academic
jargon and uses plain easy to understand language

It details the
rise of neoconservative influence within the US government particularly from
the Reagan era through to the presidency of George W. Bush, when
neoconservative power reached its zenith. It details the strong connections
neoconservatives have with right-wing Israeli Zionism and the way in which
neoconservatives were able to manipulate American power to benefit the Greater
Israel cause. The book details how various interests including the Military
Industrial Complex, the American religious right, US big business and
US/Israeli Zionists converged into a coalition under George W. Bush and his
administration that set out to determine the future history of the Middle East
in such a way as to benefit Israel and the economic interests of the US.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

On 15 May 2014,
Nakba Day for Palestinians around the world who commemorate the loss of their
lands to the Israelis, two Palestinian youths were shot dead in Beitunia, a
small town near Ramallah in the West Bank, while demonstrating against Israeli
occupation. The killings were captured on CCTV and the
footage has gone viral around the world to a point where even the US government are insisting on a full enquiry over the killings by the Israeli government.

What happened is
plain to see; two youths were shot by Israeli soldiers who were among a group
that were throwing rocks harmlessly toward the Israeli soldiers who were quite
obviously too far away to have actually have been hit by the rocks but clearly
not so far away enough as to be able to shoot at Palestinian demonstrators.

Now, despite the
killings clearly being cold blooded, US neoconservative full-time Commentary
magazine propagandists Jonathan
Tobin and Evelyn
Gordon, are trying to twist it to suggest that the whole incident was set
up to deliberately demonise the Israeli defence forces. Tobin says:

…unlike the kangaroo court of international
public opinion in which the Israelis already stand convicted, a more sober and
less prejudiced probe of what happened may well reveal something very different
than the narrative of Israeli brutality and Palestinian victimization. Until we
know how much the film produced as evidence was edited and just what the
Palestinian demonstrators were doing prior to the shootings, it would be a
mistake for anyone, including the Israeli government, to assume that the
soldiers were in the wrong.

He goes on to say:

The only point of throwing rocks and bombs at
armed soldiers is to get them to fire and thus create an international
incident. At best, the two Palestinians were merely the latest example of
youths who were needlessly sacrificed in order to generate bad publicity for
the Israelis. At worst, the story is yet another fraud.

Tobin can’t
imagine that all the teenaged Palestinian lads were doing was throwing stones
at the Israelis in some vain and naïve attempt to deter them from continuing their
presence in the West Bank and to show the Israelis that they won’t be giving up
their lands without a fight no matter how fruitless that fight might be. For
Tobin and Gordon the incident was deliberately staged by some master
manipulator of Palestinian youth who desired their deaths for propaganda
purposes. The irony, of course, is that it’s Tobin and Gordon who are using the
incident in order to push their own anti-Palestine propaganda.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Top neocon
propagandist Jonathan Tobin, writing online in Commentarytoday
argues that America’s ‘gift’ of the Iron Dome defence system designed to
counter rocket attacks from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in
Lebanon, does not mean that Israel should abstain from attacking Iran if Israel
believes Iran is close to a ‘nuclear breakout’. Tobin writes:

It’s not clear what, if anything, Netanyahu
will believe Israel is capable of doing in response to a “bad deal” with Iran
up to and including a strike on the Islamist regime’s nuclear facilities before
it is too late to stop their drive to a bomb. But whatever his decision might
be, no one in Washington should labor under the illusion that Israeli
acquiescence to an Iran deal can be bought with an anti-missile system even if
some cash is thrown in on the side.

Stirring the anti-Iran pot
further is Michael Rubin, another regular propagandist writing in Commentary,
who today
claims that Iran is looking at targeting US satellites with laser weapons.
Well, why wouldn’t they if they believe that the US could quite conceivably
attack them? It’s not as though the American’s don’t have the same technology.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

It has got
to the point that the only way the US is likely to go to war against Iran –
albeit reluctantly – is if Israel attacks Iran first. Any hope by the Zionists
and their supporters of the US making a pre-emptive strike against Iran have
long gone.

The
Israeli-Palestinian stand-off has reached a stalemate as far as talks are
concerned. The Israelis are never going to allow a Palestinian state to exist
and the Palestinians are never going to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. It
was all very inevitable. As a result, the Palestinians have adopted a new strategy
of building an alliance with Hamas and seeking membership of a number of
international conventions as a step toward recognition as a nation by the
international community. These are moves that tend to marginalise and even delegitimize
Israel especially if Israel takes steps to counter these moves. The Palestinians
have also adopted a strategy of not resorting to violence to counter Israeli
aggression and expansionism into the West Bank. In short, the table seems to
have turned against Israel and, as Israel’s aggression against Palestinians has
become exposed, so world opinion has swung against the Zionist cause.

Israel has
painted itself into a corner. It has tried to provoke war against the Palestinians
in the Gaza by randomly shooting unarmed civilians. A few rockets have been
fired into Israel in futile retaliation but nowhere near enough to provide
Israel with an excuse to launch a full on attack and occupation. In the West
Bank the Israelis have threatened more settlement building. But the Palestinians
generally have not reacted with the kind of violence the Israelis needed to
justify harsher measures. The new strategies are frustrating the Israeli
right-wing. As a result the Israelis are once again looking to Iran to provide
a casus belli for a war that will provide them with an opportunity to realise
the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel.

Elliott
Abrams writing, in the neoconservative Weekly Standard magazine, reiterates
Israel’s position. He tells how once again Netanyahu threatens action against
Iran. Abrams says that, while Netanyahu has made this threat many times before,
this time he has support from senior Israeli security chiefs who in the past
have been hesitant in attacking Iran.

As the tide
turns against Israel, so Netanyahu will become increasingly desperate to do
something turn things around. A war against Iran based on what Israel sees as
Iran’s intransigence over its so-called ‘nuclear weapons program’ might well
become Netanyahu’s final option pinning all his hopes on the US coming to his
aid to prevent Iranian retaliation.

It will be
a bad move for the Middle East, for the world and not least for Israel.

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Apart from an earlier career in engineering, Lataan also has a First Class Honours BA degree in History and a PhD in International Politics.
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